Possibly of antique Mesoamerican provenance, this ritual death-whistle - sent to me for safe-keeping by Prof. Joseph Broers of the Miskatonic University’s Department of Archaeology - formed into the semblance of some hitherto unknown squid-like deity; it is rumoured that those who heed the whistle’s keening wail are, forever after, afflicted with disturbing dreams and spontaneous, horrifying visions of some vast and monstrously antediluvian city rising from the depths of the oceans to herald the end of all things.
Needless to say, this strange artefact is now safetly ensconced within my cabinet of curiousities, where its malign influence can be contained by powerful apotropaic sigils and formulae of warding.
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